Improvement in producing ornamental designs



W. BOGGETT.

'PRODUCING ORNAMEN TAL DESIGNS. No.184,326, Patented Nbv.14, 1876.

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WILLIAM eoeenrcr, OF CHELSEA, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRODUCING ORNAM ENTAL vDESIGNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 184,326, dated November14, 1876; application July 20, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM Boeen'r'r, ofChelsea, in the countyof Middlesex, England, have invented new anduseful Improvements in the Production of Ornamental Designs and inOrnamenting Surfaces, which improvements are fully set forth in thetollowing'specification.

In carrying out my improvements I use sheets of tin-foil paper, or papercolored, embossed, or metallized, dyed cloth similarly prepared, or'sheet-gelatine, which I perforate to form a number of parallel strips orbars, which, when placed over each other at different angles, produce,by their different colors and transposition, an endless number ofpatterns or designs, enhanced in some cases by tinsel. The materialsabove referred to are used for ornamenting surfaces, particularly glassin frames, for advertising notices, either the letters, ground, ordesigns being left clear, and other portions of the glass made wholly orpartially opaque, so that the designs may appear through the clearspaces.

By removing portions of the silvering from lookingglasses, to formletters or designs, a like result may be obtained.

The dark portions of glass may be made sufiiciently opaque by means ofsheets of col- I ored paper, by metal, or by painting or embossing.Sometimes I coat the clear spaces with varnish or other transparentcement, upon which I place small particles of tin-foil, paper tinsel,bright metal, or woven silk.

For designs intended to be transparent I use colored sheet-gelatine ordyed tracing paper or cloth, and I protect, by transparent varnish, suchof the above-named materials as would be otherwise subject to tarnish.The parallel or other strips may be cemented to any surface, or be outinto letters or ornaments for that purpose.

The number of designs which may be produced by the means indicated inthe previous description being practically unlimited, it is, therefore,impossible to describe them in detail; but I may say, generally, thatmetallized foil paper, especially when crimped or corrugated, is, eitherby itself or combined with other materials, such as colored ormetallized paper, sheet-gelatine, foil, tinsel, silk, or cloth,

the article I find most useful in carrying my invention in to practice.

the above mentioned materials, the s and colors of the whole being soOOIDbll hapes ned as to produce the desired ornament when seen throughthe clear openings in surfaces of paper or other material, or spaces inglass.

cementing two sheets of foil-paper together, back to back, I obtainsmall bits by cutting them, which thus show bright on both sides,

and I employ them in ornamenting surfaces, either alone or intermixedwith bright metallic particles, and sometimes in combination withv theother materials previously mentioned.

When employing silvered or looking glass for the purpose named, I use asharp chisel or tool to remove the required portions of silver, and,with a little nitric acid, get rid of any remaining silver specks, theprepared nuded spaces, so as to show through ments being placed at theback of the dethem.

In like manner, letters, borders, or devices may be out in the paper ofphotograp hic or other pictures, between the picture and frame, throughwhich the ornaments become visible, and recesses may be out, with thelike object, in the frames of pictures or looking-glasses to admit the"ornaments, with pieces of glass for their protection.

Sometimes I place the ornamental paper on the face of thelooking-glasses, so that it may appear partially through the paper,which is held in its place by parts of the frame h recesses to retainthe pieces of glass.

aving In the accompanying drawing, which serves to illustrate one formor application of my invention, Figure 1 represents a partlyb rokenglazed advertising strip or frame constructed in accordance with theinvention, and Fig. 2

a longitudinal section of the same in a plane at right angles to theface of the frame.

A is a strip of glass, painted on its back,

or otherwise made opaque, excepting where the design is required to beseen throu which design here consists, mainly, of a rated border, I),and the word ALES center of the strip. ()n the back of the gh it,

perfoin the glass A, thus made transparent to the extent of the design,is arranged and secured, by any suitable means, a perforated sheet, B,of tin-foil paper or other material, having any desired color, and withits perforations disposed to form parallel bars or strips 0, which areclearly seen through the transparent or design portions of the glass. Onthe back of this perforated sheet B is another perforated sheet, 0, oflike or other ma erial, but of a different color, and with itsperforations disposed to form parallel bars or strips 01, which aredisposed to have an oblique or angular relation with the bars or strips0. On the back of this second perforated sheet 0, or on the back of therear one of a series of differently-perforated and differently-coloredsheets, supposing there be more than two, arranged one behind the other,is a still differently-colored sheet, D,

which need not be perforated, and which may either be plainorcorrngated, to complete the design. After this the whole may be boundtogether by a backing or frame piece or covering, E.

Having thus described the nature of my invention, and the manner ofperforming or carrying the same into practice, what I claim is- Themethod of producing ornamental designs, the same consisting,essentially,of making a transparent pattern on an opaque sheet, A,placing back of the same a sheet, B,formed in parallel strips 0, back ofthat a differently-colored sheet, 0, also formed in parallel strips, butplaced so that the strips will run in a difi'erent direction, and backof the whole the sheet D, substantially as and for the purpose hereinshown and described.

WILLIAM BOGGETT.

